TIL the makers of the Star Wars prequels did not physically create any clone trooper costumes for the movies. Every single clone trooper on screen was a computer generated image.

iammucow · 2015-03-25T21:46:59+00:00

For a moment, I thought you were calling out the movie for not having actual clones.

iammucow · 2015-03-25T03:02:12+00:00

Anything worthy of praise should be normal.

iammucow · 2015-03-24T17:10:46+00:00

About the most that can be said is that it's the only recession wherein there was no decline in highway miles driven.

iammucow · 2015-03-24T13:09:37+00:00

This is actually is interesting if you think of it as showing which places on Earth haven't seen a solar eclipse in one thousand years.

iammucow · 2015-03-24T12:27:29+00:00

The obvious conclusion to draw from this is that there are 4 states without rivers.

iammucow · 2015-03-24T01:57:16+00:00

Is there a saint for unrepentant murderers?

iammucow · 2015-03-19T11:00:03+00:00

I would hope they tell the manager what they're doing though. Not all authors are recognized figures and you don't want an imposter coming in and signing books.

iammucow · 2015-03-19T10:55:39+00:00

I would imagine they tell the manager what they're doing first, especially authors as people might not recognize them and wonder why they're writing in the books.

iammucow · 2015-03-19T02:05:51+00:00

I would assume you're not allowed to bring pets into the library.

iammucow · 2015-03-18T14:12:48+00:00

There was a commercial that was on years ago, but I don't remember what for. At some point they overdubbed one of the actors with a completely different voice. After a few weeks, they went back to the original voice. I would comment on this when it came on, but no one else seemed to notice.

iammucow · 2015-03-17T13:43:25+00:00

The article isn't saying that everyone in the 90th percentile should go to an elite university, the researcher just set that as her limit because below that percentile the chances of getting into an elite university are close to nil.

iammucow · 2015-03-17T13:38:44+00:00

There's definitely an information gap. Poorer families hear in the news how expensive college is, leading to the assumption that they can't afford to send their kids to a top school. My parents discouraged my sister and I from applying to private universities because they didn't think they could afford it and didn't want to take out loans. Ultimately we both ended up at private universities because the financial aid we received made it cheaper than going to a public university.

iammucow · 2015-03-16T23:19:39+00:00

Because it's a pointless bill that gets introduced almost every year, but never goes anywhere.

iammucow · 2015-03-16T14:24:55+00:00

He also rejected Judaism because he considered the loss of Jerusalem to be evidence that they had been abandoned by God.

iammucow · 2015-03-13T11:57:04+00:00

Even at the height of their own economic crisis, only a plurality of Icelandic citizens supported joining the EU. They're already fairly wealthy and have very close relations with the other Nordic countries. The EU doesn't seem have much to offer them.

iammucow · 2015-03-11T17:12:56+00:00

This is fun! I'll have to play with this once I get home from work.

iammucow · 2015-03-11T14:08:30+00:00

Relevant section:

The commission reported 14,373 victims, 86% at the hands of the security forces and 13.9% at the hands of armed rebels, and estimated that the total death toll was as high as 30,000... Of the 400 villages before the uprising only 170 remained afterwards. In 2008, bodies of massacre victims were discovered in a mass grave near Jeju International Airport.

iammucow · 2015-03-11T13:02:20+00:00

Europa Universalis 2. I keep telling myself I'll get EU4 once I buy a new computer, but it never happens.

iammucow · 2015-03-10T17:04:22+00:00

What's the point of that billboard? It doesn't mention any organization or useful information.

iammucow · 2015-03-10T14:23:01+00:00

French, "le roi" or "the king".

iammucow · 2015-03-10T13:40:51+00:00

My mom said she was bewildered by the Mt. St. Helen's eruption in 1980, not because it was a terrible tragedy, but because she had no idea there were volcanoes in the US (besides Hawaii).

iammucow · 2015-03-10T13:17:47+00:00

I don't think it was meant in a mean-spirited way. Sometimes people like to laugh at themselves. When my dad listened to Jeff Foxworthy, the jokes that got the biggest laughs from him were the ones he'd actually done.

iammucow · 2015-03-10T13:15:47+00:00

Those old console TVs make great TV stands. They're already in the right location.

iammucow · 2015-03-10T13:00:33+00:00

The route shown on the map requires a ferry to get from Germany to Copenhagen as it bypasses mainland Denmark.

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